FOA-Limited
Submission – NSF – Partnerships for Innovation - Research Partnership Track
(PFI-RP) – NSF 19-506; August 5, 2020
Purpose:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program
offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF
the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development,
catalyze partnerships, and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the
laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.
The Technology
Translation (PFI-TT) track is not limited submission and does not require
participation in an internal competition. PFI-TT offers the opportunity
to translate prior NSF-funded research results in any field of science or
engineering into technological innovations with promising commercial potential
and societal impact.
The Research
Partnerships (PFI-RP) track seeks to achieve the same goals as the
PFI-TT track by supporting instead complex, multi-faceted technology development
projects that are typically beyond the scope of a single researcher or
institution and require a multi-organizational, interdisciplinary, synergistic
collaboration. A PFI-RP project requires the creation of partnerships between
academic researchers and third-party organizations such as industry,
non-academic research organizations, federal laboratories, public or non-profit
technology transfer organizations, or other universities. Such partnerships are
needed to conduct applied research on a stand-alone larger project toward
commercialization and societal impact.
The
intended outcomes of both PFI-TT and PFI-RP tracks are: a) the
commercialization of new intellectual property derived from NSF-funded research
outputs; b) the creation of new or broader collaborations with industry
(including increased corporate sponsored research); c) the licensing of
NSF-funded research outputs to third party corporations or to start-up
companies funded by a PFI team; and d) the training of future innovation and
entrepreneurship leaders.
Eligibility:
NSF Lineage Requirement: All proposals submitted to the PFI program must meet a
lineage requirement under one of the following two paths:
1)
NSF-supported
research results in all fields of science and
engineering:
Principal
Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have had an NSF award that ended no more than
seven (7) years prior to the full proposal deadline date or be a current NSF
award recipient. The proposed technology development project must be derived
from the research results and/or discoveries from this underlying NSF
award.
OR
2)
NSF-supported
customer discovery results through the NSF
I-Corps Teams
Program. The Principal Investigator (PI) or a co-PI must have been a member of an award under the NSF
I-Corps Teams Program (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/teams.jsp).
Funding
Amount/ Project Period: $550,000
for 36 months (PFI-RP proposals)
Link
to Funding Opportunity
Announcement
Institutional
Limit: 1 PFI-RP submission per
deadline
Internal
Competition: To
participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the
following,assembled
into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this
portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research
by June 30, 2020:
·
Names
and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel
or partners;
·
Title
of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;
·
Confirmation
that the project proposed is for the Research Partnerships
track;
·
Brief
project description (2 pages maximum);
·
Brief
biographical sketch
A
committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.
For
questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited
submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu),
or call 257-2861.
Agency
Deadline: August
5, 2020